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Interdimensional Managers ([personal profile] interdimanagers) wrote in [community profile] interstellar4042016-02-22 01:12 pm
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☆RESCUER TEST DRIVE: SOMETHING ABOUT US

☆WELCOME RESCUERS



Welcome to Interstellar's second RESCUER TDM! A part of the Interstellar plot that first opened a couple months ago, this TDM cover the second round of recruitment for those approached by the lone space pilot Shep to join him on a mission to the planet Terra to rescue those held captive by Pride Records and Virgo Entertainment. Rescuers will not suffer any memory loss and will enter the game as they are, in contrast to the memory loss/force humanization of the musician half. Powers will be nerfed to a certain degree upon entering the game fully, but during recruitment they will remain at full power.

☆A DREAM ABOUT YOU
These prompts are designed to be game canon, for both rescuers and musicians both new and already in game. For those in game, they will start occurring around New Years in the form of dreams. The dreams will be very clear while happening, but after waking, they will swiftly fade away into something barely remembered. For rescuers, these dreams will occur very shortly before they are approached by Shep or other already recruited rebels to join the rescue squad and go save the people being held captive in Vista City. Rescuers will remember these dreams as clearly as something that actually happened in real life.

Both of these prompts take place in the dreamscape, ostensibly, and the surrounding will appear as whatever fits those taking part in a scene. It can shift and change as a thread goes along, as well, and may resemble things from a captive's home, the game setting, or anything else appropriate. Rescuers that are already in game can also end up in this dreamscape, and can run into both new musicians and new rescue team recruits.



A1) FOR THE CAPTURED: The kidnapped musicians of Vista City will dream of being themselves - in a way more true than they have been for months now. They'll dream of themselves as they're meant to be, in physical form and manner of dress, and their personality will align more easily with their true nature, even as the confusing influences of their programming nag at their mind. It could alarm them, or it could feel somehow natural. Either way, their memories will still be gone, except for what they've recovered - but they feel somehow much closer to reach, like they may break through if only given the chance to dig just about deeper. They may dream of home, they may dream of Vista, but either way...when the morning comes, their memories of this experience will be all but wiped away. Including the memories of the strangers that promised that they would find them and take them home.

A2) FOR THE RESCUERS: The dream is the first sign of something being wrong. You'll find yourself somewhere else - either a scene from your home, or someone else's, or an alien world you've never seen. In this dream, you'll find a person. Perhaps it's someone you recognize, someone you love dearly, but that doesn't remember you. Maybe it's a stranger, lost, confused, and desperate for help. Either way, you find yourself reaching out to them - but outside of this dream, you are helpless to save them. The dream will fade but stay with you in your memory, and may be a key component in you choosing to believe and join the other rescuers when they come to your door. Something has been taken, and you will take it back.

☆MAKE THESE DREAMS COME TRUE
These prompts are design to be kept as game canon after acceptance, and can be used as the official story of how your character entered the game. Importantly, the technology used to enter your timeline causes massive time distortions, which means that the outcome of this scenario will stagger and replay itself multiple times before settling on an outcome. This means that after the fact, you character may remember being encountered multiple ways, or going in more than one direction, before the timeline settled on a final path.




B1) JUST SAY YES: Soon after these dreams, rescuers will find themselves in a strange situation. Time will abruptly stop for every part of the world except for them, and fade into a ghostly vision of its former self - just in time for them to be approached by some mysterious strangers. Whether your rescuer chooses to run, fight, or talk, eventually they'll be told the truth - people of the multiverse have been captured and taken to a universe far away to be harvested for their souls...in the form of forcing them to becoming rock stars. You heard it here first, folks.

The people recruiting you will mostly be other player rescuers that have already been recruited (regardless of whether or not that's been threaded out - you can assume your guy got recruited by someone if you want to recruit OTHER people.) The pilot and owner of the space ship doing this appears to be a blue man named Shep. He's the guy that's apparently in charge of this whole thing, but he's so busy with the dimension hopping that he's kind of hard to find and talk to. He presumably recruited some of the first members personally, but things have been sort of getting more complicated since then.

B2) INTERSTELLAR DISCO: After you've agreed to come for whatever reason - to save you lover, friend, some guy, whatever - you're be taken upon the guitar shaped spaceship to wait out the tide of the temporal distortions picking you up has caused. It's a long journey back to Vista City, and you've got plenty of new comrades to get to know. This mission could take a while, so you better get comfy. You're in for the long haul now.

NOTE: If you want to see the interior of the spaceship (or if you want to see Shep dance) watch the music video posted up top. It's going to be a fair bit bigger in Interstellar to accommodate the big crew, but the essence is there.


☆HELPFUL INFO
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ninjou: (pic#10080505)

[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Regenerative abilities should kick in. It's not exactly what happened, so it's not entirely a recollection.

[...Well, wait, hold on a minute, this just got interesting. She can light things with her own body? That's different.]

This is all pretend. He's just not that weak. Meanwhile, the one in black is. [Smirk.] Enough about them, though. [People are still fighting in the background, and he's just going to talk about this:] Human torch?
spaghettimonster: (Papyrus modestly admits to his strengths) (AFTER ALL I AM VERY GREAT)

ooh. lit references everywhere, then

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-03-09 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Ask a secretive person to not tell secrets and mislead people? That's the best way to get even more agreeable refusal, especially in the form of complete inaction. Papyrus could write a book about it. Titled 'Not my brother's keeper, but sometimes', perhaps.]

'Specifically'...? There is no specifically. I believe in everyone!

My 'thing' is being a very cool and helpful friend. I, Papyrus, am an inspiration to all I meet! Even if some of them have a harder time feeling that inspiration. Or acting on it.
woomy: icon of a side glancing Agent 3 (Don't be shellfish)

[personal profile] woomy 2016-03-09 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! A pre-emptive measure! That's what it is for me. The CEOs want to become godlike or something really really powerful with all the musical energy they're collecting.

[ But she doesn't know what Dazai is talking about when he trails off. Is there not a lot of music in his world? That would be sad. ]

... Also, it's pretty neat to see the past. I'm learning a lot about humans.
ninjou: (Default)

yuuuup. and it's really my favorite manga in quite some time! highly recommended

[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[See, these two could see eye to eye socket! Sometimes people just need to do their own thing with a touch of proper direction and well-intentioned interference.]

Everyone? How do you manage that? I bet it's a little exhausting. I mean, even people you don't like?
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[personal profile] possessedbygreeed 2016-03-09 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Notes complete, the notebook gets put away again.] Once I wouldn't have believed all this about aliens and brainwashing people into rock stars and pink lions and all that. But after the year I've had, I could believe anything.
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[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm still reeling a little at the "power of music" part, but the truth can be stranger than fiction, can't it? Basically, we have to fight the good fight, Or Else.

[And no, there are just a lot of interesting people in his place of employment. Knowing that group, someone's got a koto stashed in the closet or a guitar under the desk or something.]

Just to double check: You're not human? At all?
stylistic_disloyalty: (001)

[personal profile] stylistic_disloyalty 2016-03-09 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[This is a strangely specific dream, and his commentary is bizarrely specific too, but Luci has been rolling around these weird dreams too long to get stuck on details like regeneration after being impaled.]

Something like that. Seems like I can control my body temperature to a ridiculous degree. [She snaps again and lights her whole hand this time.] I don't know. I try not to do it because, you know, Santiago would put me on the rack probably.
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[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Magic is just misdirection. Sorry! Analytical type, can't help it.

[His pocket is hammerspace. Excellent. that part Dazai likes, at least. When things are too weird to be real, one must embrace it and dissect the causes. Such is the mind of a really lazy formerly highly criminal detective. Long story, not worth telling.

Calmly and with all sorts of analytical brow furrowing and jaw setting, he looks the contract over.]


Now, this is vague, so I'm going to briefly suspend talks on signing it and ask you what you're actually offering.
alovingheart: (• so I whisper in the dark)

[personal profile] alovingheart 2016-03-09 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
[The bandages give Anna pause, looking notably surprised for a moment. But, right, gotta focus. People to save. Lives at stake.]

Okay. Same goes to you then, buster, and I don't cheat. So let's do this. On the count of three. You ready?
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[personal profile] possessedbygreeed 2016-03-09 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well, she didn't make it sound all that much like his former situation. And that was easier to follow than most of what she just said. So he relaxed a bit about that particular subject. "So your Thief is who they've taken? Can you tell me more about him? Maybe I can help you look when we get there." He pulled out a notebook, ready to jot down the particulars.
woomy: icon of a squid (Inkredibly cute squid here)

[personal profile] woomy 2016-03-09 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Seeing is believing, so Agent 3 does something that humans can't normally do.

She changes into a bright green squid that shimmers like ink. Which, coincidentally is exactly what she is made of.
]

Nope. I'm an Inkling.
ninjou: (Default)

[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[It's very specific, and a scene that could play out in perpetuity as long as Akutagawa kept being a bratty, emotional piece of work. Rashomon was useful in the right hands, and Akutagawa was too impulsive and rash to make it really work against someone with an opposing type of--well, that's boring. Anyway, more importantly, that was a pun. She said degree. Give him a second to stifle a giggle.]

It makes sense to hide things away a little bit. [He wiggles his fingers and says nothing as to why.] That's still fancy. Where does it come from, if you don't mind my asking?
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[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
I am always ready, miss.

[It's good that he's the sporting sort. Here goes...]

One, two, three!

[Rock. He looks at her hand expectantly.]
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[personal profile] ninjou 2016-03-09 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[W H A T]

Is everyone here good at puns? You're a squid, but you may also be a figment of someone's imagination.
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[personal profile] possessedbygreeed 2016-03-09 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
He chuckled a bit. Okay she had him there. "I'm a police officer actually. I just got back on the beat after about a year, er, indisposed." Not injured or ill, just that.

"But don't worry," he said with a smile he hoped was encouraging. "They probably want to see you as badly as you want to see them. And there's lots of us around to help."
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[personal profile] glorifiedtrash 2016-03-09 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
If I'm honest? Whatever it takes to get you to sign on. I've got a personal investment here and Shep determined we need you on board. Though what skills you have that make you so special he didn't say.

[Zelos is really bad at this. REALLY BAD.]

That saidI have a lot of money and I'm jumping timelines and space just to be here. One or the other has to be good to buy a few months of your time. You have to have something you're struggling with or you would have walked away first thing.
woomy: icon of a shocked Agent 3 (That's abalone!)

[personal profile] woomy 2016-03-09 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ There are so many ocean and sea puns in her world, it's inkredibly crazy. ]

Huh? I'm real. I'm just from the future.
stylistic_disloyalty: (073)

[personal profile] stylistic_disloyalty 2016-03-09 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Well how about that-- guy has a sense of humor. Luci grins around her cigarette and puts her hands in her pockets, turning away from the ridiculous impalement happening in front of her.]

Fuck if I know. I have a theory, but it's literally the most ridiculous shit ever. What would you say if I said I could set myself on fire because I'm Lucifer?
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[personal profile] alovingheart 2016-03-09 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Anna had... also chosen rock. It's a tie.]

Oh. Well, at least we know neither of us cheated. Are we supposed to go again?

[She is not super well-versed in rock, paper, scissors, okay? She knows the basics, but it's not really a game one plays by themselves, so. Not a lot of experience.]
spaghettimonster: (CoolSkeleton95) (COOL DUDE)

i may check it out sometime! the reference will go over my head, but maybe not forever.

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2016-03-09 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[A touch of proper direction like nagging, and post-it-notes, and the equally stubborn refusal to do things for them. Eventually something has to give. He has to start vacuuming his room someday, right?]

[Maybe not.]


Huh? Believing in people, isn't the same as actively helping them. I can't reach out to everyone, I am only one person! But I can believe in myself. And in my friends! If I help them, and they help their friends.... We can do anything!
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[personal profile] tinymsnightmare 2016-03-09 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[She can't help her nature even if she was only one of many forms of a monster so strong that only one bloodline could contain her. She drummed her heels against the table height was looking less and less like a table and more like an eight-legged coffin. There is a hint of laughter in her voice, her eyes reflecting red.]

They look for people with special skills that can find and extract those victims the godlike beings are using to fuel their rituals for claiming the universe. Someone that can find the victims and help them break free of the mind control.
radiant_bloom: (Smile)

[personal profile] radiant_bloom 2016-03-09 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
"So your whole life is about protecting people too!" she said, nodding. "We're going to be great friends, all of us, I just know it."

She smiled and gave another nod. "I know. We'll be together soon, I'm sure of it!"
snapcrackleburn: (snap)

[personal profile] snapcrackleburn 2016-03-09 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Your hard work is appreciated. Please be careful Agent 3. Santiago is an extremely dangerous person. She won't hesitate to injure or kill those who get in her way.

[ 3 is young. He's guessing she has guts if she came all this way but she deserves fair warning of what she has volunteered to do. He stands tall and clasps his hands behind his back, looking more like he belongs in the uniform he's wearing. ]

Consider it an order: You are not to take any unnecessary risks. My rescue is not worth you getting seriously injured or worse. Santiago can only be defeated if we make intelligent decisions.
woomy: icon of an angry Agent 3 (You're the slimy little hipster!)

[personal profile] woomy 2016-03-09 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ She stands up straighter as well, trying to muster all the pose that a member of the New Squidbeak Splatoon should have. ]

Yes, sir! But I'm going to make sure the bad guys go down. I'm used to being on the front lines and battling.

[ Even if her ink isn't damaging to anyone. She's working on it! ]
prince_the_ripper: (peeking // neutral)

[personal profile] prince_the_ripper 2016-03-09 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, he wouldn't expect any less from their boss, even if he seems a bit squishier than usual. He's still going to flick a knife toward the man's side with his free hand, though, because it's not a decent Varia dinner without at least one murder attempt for the lulz. ]

Shishishi. You're doing better than we thought. Think you'll be able to break out by yourself soon, Boss? Would save me the trip.

[ And uh yeah he's just gonna drop the Vongola 10th thing now. It's not safe for smart princes, etc etc. ]

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